First modern full-length biography of scholar and member of late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.

In each area, the authors discuss a range of issues by applying and debating key critical approaches to Shakespeare including new historicism, cultural material

Supporters filled the house to ensure a positive reception, but as the curtain went up, no one could suspect the disaster that was to ensue.

Shakespeare's plays are stuffed with letters - 111 appear on stage in all but five of his dramas. But for modern actors, directors, and critics they are frequen

An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.